EIST 6101 - Adult Learning
Course Reading Guide 8
READING GUIDE #8
ADULT LEARNING
Malcolm
S. Knowles Text 5th
Edition
Chapter #8
Text Pages 153-179
Beyond Andragogy
Student Name :
Semester: ______________________________________________________________
1. According to Jonasson & Grabowski, what are the four levels of cognitive differences?
2.
Describe
Horn & Catwell’s theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence.
3.
What does
research show as far as an increase or decrease in intelligence throughout a
person’s lifetime?
4.
A. What
are the seven types of intelligence?
B. What do critics say about these intelligences?
5.
Explain
the difference between field dependent and field independent learners.
6.
What are
the characteristics of field dependent learners?
7.
According
to James & Galbraith (1985), what are the seven elements to acquiring
information?
8.
Describe
the characteristics of global and analytic processors.
9.
Who
developed a learning style inventory primarily for children?
10.
What
instrument that assesses personality has a strong research base?
11.
Describe
the best uses of learning style instruments.
12.
A.
Describe Gibbon’s three kinds of learning.
13.
How
does understanding life changes help adult educators?
14.
According
to Levinson’s Life Task Model, what question do people in the 40-45 age group
ask? What stage are you in?
15.
According
to Erikson, what identity stage are you currently in?
16.
Define
dialectic thinking.
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